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Daily Republican., 1887-12-20
HIhInrlcAI soaIhtE

The reg ar ssss !Jn OF the Hlstorioel
Society o! Ds.AwAre was held la IT,
room a.. evening. There we're pre-
en- C0.Oue. Christian Fe1Ige7 G. -ursr
w Bach, J.: Er /. p. Bash. Eiw9Oa
G'rrst, JuH ge L.eUUaTd T. Wa.e-
AmGs l. DeE III, Dr. <. + ,IOL1suu
and u ITrAas Burr. The acuol Of
tas ueG ber- WHO ,oAuti lIs battle
dAJs Cl tie Second De.aV arc krglu.ent
that reRiueL ~ its lass reunion wa4
approved. Or X = johnson, ihs u
orar!an, stated Tia: TIE hags had oteI
returned.
Tue c m r.stee sppo.n oil 10 uHmi.
nate gsEoidstes " be voted for as utii
GERS for the eL u.rz year reported tho
following President, Leonard K
Wa,es vi e presidents, Thomas r
Bay ard, CHAR e. &. Stock ey and chief
lstlce CUusSyt; corresponding sfc.e
tsry, DR.. l.. +. Bush, recording sscrf.
.ary George W. BQsE Jr, treasnttr,
II my L. Bringhurst; librariau, D- K.
johnson, his.oriosrspher, Dr. Horace
Burr directors, Christtan Fobiger,
Jatn z Wales, NJ D.. Willarl Hal
Porter, George II. Bates, E,q, sud
William A Lam Jtte. The above y ere
duly elected. r6ere belug no reIor,s
10 consider. The Aunus! mee.i,g a..
j urned.
Tie regular II monthly meeting was
then Leld, Judge Wales prestd!rg
The committee on preparation for ,ae
annua anniversary presented the To-
owing resolution, which was adopted
Resolved, That George d. Bates
E-q be invited to prepare paper OF
.Gs representative OF Delaware IN The
| Constitutionsl Convention Of 1897.
Dr.. l.. z Bush WAS appointed a com
mtttee OF one ~ get photograph o
Dr.. James Tlton for the USE OF thu H.
cietJ. The com nittee on monum,nt, Z,
com memorate ths landing OF th1 seu e
In 1853, reported progrets DR.. Busl
ofrrsd the following resolution, who.
was adoptt d
WHEREAS, DR.. Horscs Barr bs
g9nerousIy offered to this soci,ty lh
trans. alton msde by him Of the RECORD
! OF II Jly Trinity church, noV catle,
20 SHades, IN Wl.mingtoni thsrsfor
| be 1,
| Resolved, Iha. we gratefully &C
c-pt the Doctors oti,r, and tha. b.
com mittee Cn publication be dirsCte,
- have the translation published TO
the use Of the society
These trausiatiCDs embrace all Ii
records OF TIE church from 1893 t
1885.
The Cc mml,tce on donation reporte
he rec -IpJ from William B Hfsud
Clerk Of the Municipal Court, OF Cn
volume OF the IA q erlcan WaIchmsL
for the year 1914 also tEo ', nos
tho "hirror Uf the Timts," ls02 I
oO3, These ara Old papers that at
published in this city IN any years az
Daily Republican., 1887-12-20
Labor Notes,

A conference Of nail manufacturer
representing ten mills, near Wheeling
West Virginia. and the "ieeder nailert
who took the place q the striking nail
ers last year, was held on Saturday
evening. The man n ufacturers now Wish
a oucession OF still lower wages from
the workmen No result was reachsd
except to chow that the men are as firm
against The red uction as the nailers
were in 1886 A proposal Ia now being
considered to disrupt the Western Mail
Association and organize locai 1850
citation OF the manufacturers.
TIE converting, blooming and rail de
ptrtments Ct the Edgar Thomson Stee
Works at Bratdocks, Pa, were olused
on Saturday, and the employees notiltt
hat Tor the present there won bi 40
| york for them II 10 upderI tuod tha
the rail mill suspension Is for an iudt Il
| nlt- period, but that the con vertirg sDt
| blooming departments will resum
titsr tho aDLutl repairs have OteI
made, Tie shut down will throw Fey
etal tbOusand men ont OF en ploymea
Daily Republican., 1887-12-20
w aNAm AK ER's
PHILADELPHIA. Tass1ay, Dec 20. Igdi
O. 3en till 10 tonight and
=very night this week.

Keep to the right.
Keep moving.
Big crowd, of course, but
. en,y of room. Observe
the above requests AID
serybooy here will be more
:, m,ortable.
Daily Republican., 1887-12-20
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Trains ISAvs Uo,Ewsrs Avsnrs Uspae


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Junction with DiEcinnAi and ~ IAouf
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Daily Republican., 1887-12-20
WITH THE OPENING
Of the 4 i
Christmas
y f. Season

We nave TO ~rnognrc PREPARATIONS ior
the busincs not only extraordinary
but unprecedented. IN our cHfericncc.
In former N..'- We have been unable.
by reason ri insufficient room, 10
properly prepare for tic great crowds
which fairly overwhelmed Us for two
weeks prcccGsrs Christmas Day.
This ycar aar large ncw bu,ldings
give us more 0oor space ior the sale
Of the good, sc keep han any other
American hao~c
All our Preparations have been m
proportion to 'ao lp'rc4>cd pace, and
the arrangements ter The comfort and
conVcntcn' :. our patrons, Is wen a,
N increased ..,s Fl goods especially
adaU,cd ID.
Daily Republican., 1887-12-20

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Daily Republican., 1887-12-20

This year We are making aspecialty
OF Japar ese Toys for Christmas tree
d decorations.
Daily Republican., 1887-12-20
HOLIDAY GIFTS

are believed 10 bc almost Wl,nua
parcllcl
Intornatan rcqu, led ly mail wi
be hccrfu.iy prnlshcd, and al ord,r,
''omftI' and al L.oTJ filed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15

the inquest on the body of Mrs. Wander
man, wife of leading druggist VINO died
under peculiar circumstances. The YER
dict was that deceased came to her
death by poison placed in her f,od by a
servant at the direction OF Waterman.
He was arrested.
FRANK Rollins, aged II, stabbed and
killed Frank WHAT, aged 10, At Column
bus, Kan. The murder occurred at a
Sunday school, and was the result of a
quarrel between the young meH brought
about by each cutting off the hair from
the others mastache.
HENRY WHrick, a tie-chopper, stabbed
and killed Archie Mcmillan in the Usage
hills, twenty-five miles from Jefferson
City, Mo. The tie-choppers were ell
drunk and engaging in a general riot,
and Mcmillan was killedwhile trying to
stop the row.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

EVERY trace of the Colorado beetle has
been destroyed in Germany by the timely
use of disinfectants and tilling of the
fields in which the pest appeared.
RAwsoN, Ohio, with 1900 Inhabitants,
was the scene Of great conhagratlon
Tuesday. Half of the town was destroyed,
and the loss is estimated at 100000.
A TBREsHING engine exploded Tuesday
morning, andWilliam Bsmphus was blown
to pieces, AID five other persons were
wounded, three OF them fatally.
JACKsoN's silk mill and the Grant Loco
motive Works at Paterson, n. j., were
destroyed by fire. The loss is S15O,OOO,
and 600 persons are out Of employment
On Saturday night Thompson's hard
ware store in Montreal was burned; loss,
49,, 900. Darling & Co.'s hardware store
was damaged chiefly by water to the
amount of $4,000.
The Arlington Hotel at Sagertown,
Pa, was burned early Thursday morning
causing loss of about $4,000. The
guests who narrowly escaped lost all their
property.
IT is reported that the schooner Mag
ara, of the Australasia tow, broke adrift
off Whitefsh point, and foundered with
all hands, including the captains family,
Is in number.
SPARK from an engine ighited the
bedding of a carload of fine cattle, en-
route from Clinton, H., to the Atlanta
fair. Most of the animals were roasted
to death. The others were frightfully
burned, and had to be put to death.
The schooner Bluebell went to pieces
off Sheboygan, Wis, the crew being saved
by the life-saving corps. The Bluebell
was en- route for Milwaukee, laden with
cedar posts.
NUMBER of Reading railway cars
were wrecked at Williamsport, Pa, by a
collision between freight and gravel
train. The financial loss Is $4,000
A brakeman named Michael Joyce was
killed.
FIRE IN a tenement at No. 522 Fiftieth
street, New York, caused a fearful panic
among the inmates, the occupants at
Nos. SIS and $40 also sharing in the
fright. Many persons were injured,
but nobody sustained any fatal wounds.
The occupants lost everything they poss-
essed:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15
A Dairy Calculation
Chicago Journal.

There are herds of COWS that average
$25 or $50 for the season; an average
means the middle between extremes. The
extremes of product of ordinary herds
will vary from S15 to $40 for the milking
season. If tho best COWS pay $50 year
profit, the poorest live at a loss of $40
each. That is, if these COWS were killed
and buried the owner would be SO a
year In his pocket. At 81 per 100 pounds
of milk the poorest COW would make only
800 pounds of milk in the factory sea-
son, and there are thousands of COWS that
do no better than this. Another waste is
the use of the most costly foods or the
actual stinting of food. A good COW fed
only on pasture will always pay double
the cost of or 5 pounds of bran daily In
milk or butter.
This is more especially true of winter
feeding, when straw may be mixed with
hay, and the difference in value of straw
spent in bran will make the feed worth
more for product than if all hay we're
fed.
The above is but an example and the
reader may take it as type for thought
full consideration in his own special cir
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15
Marketing Honey

Colorado Farmer
How shall we market our honey, to get
the most money out of it? In the first
place, we must grade our honey, making
white comb honey, straight combs; in
nice, clean one-pound section boxes; (2)
the light amber honey and those sections
that may have crooked combs; (3) any
| honey that may be dark, and those sec
tions with cells only patty filled. This
for comb honey. For extracted we would
have two grades, first and second. ANY
| thing below that we would feed back to
tho bees for winter use.
| What next? Having your honey Sc
| lected as above, scrape all sections free
from bits of comb and pTAopoles, which
| the bees manage to get on the boxes more
or less, using nice, clean, fresh quality
section boxes. Take the samples to the
grocers and ask a fair price for it. DO
not rush your crop on the msartet In a
| lump, for by so doing you overstock, and
IN consequence reduce the price, which
you will find uphill work in advancing
again later on In the season. better
way to keep and get good fair price for
honey would be to have one reliable firm
handle all the honey, directly from the
bee-keepers. Produces should work to-
gether. By so doing they would not
undersell each other and all would get
the same price for the same grade of
honey. Having established a ''honey
depot" wholesale and retail grocers and
others wishing to porchase would go di-
rect to headquarters. pay their money
and take their choice. The firm handling
the honey would buy direct from the
producer, or sell for them on commission,
advancing, perhaps, small amount on
their consignments. We have no doubt
but what ''honey depot established as
above, would pay all parties interested a
fair sum and prove satisfactory bust
ness. What have you to say on the mat
ter, brother, bee-keeper? Let us have
your views on the subject. If the above
plan were carried out there would be no
glat and fair prices could be maintained.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15
Washington News.

The action of Acting Secretary of the
Treasury Thompson in refusing to accep t
any Of the bonds at the prices offered
to-day Was not a surprise to few of the
higher officials in the Treasury, although
it created considerable general comment.
1t was limited in the department week
ago that an effort was being made to
hold back the offerings in the hope of
higher prices being obtained. This
policy. however, is not likely to prove sue
cessful. Secretary Thompson stated to-
day that the circular under which the
bonds were offered gave the department
the fullest discretion as to the amount
it could buy and the price to be paid. He
declined to say more about the matter,
but it can be stated without fear of con-
tradiction that the Treasury will not pay
an excessive price for the bonds, and
those people who are holding off for y
rise will in the end get less than what
they would have got had they been con-
tented to accept regular market prices
or shade below them. The fact that
there is no demand to sell bonds is &C.
cepted by the Treasury officials as refu-
tation to the allegation that there is a
stripgeRcy in the money market.
Acting Secretary Thomp son to-day
opened the fifth lot of proposals for the
sale of AZ per cent bonds to the govern
ment. The aggregate Of the offerings
was $685. 500, at from 108.22 to ITO. The
tenders were all rel ected as too high
higher than the price paid last week.
The Acting Secretary of the Interior
has requested the Attorney General to
institute suit against the following par
ii sin Montana for unlawful fencing of
the public lands: George Watkins, George
Fl. Goodwin, John Baringer, Sidney Pad
get, Carpenter & Robertson, John N.
Bean, Niagara Cattle Company, B. B.
Bishop, Columbia Land and Cattle Com
pany, Concord Cattle Company, Green
Mountain Ranching Company, Bull
Mountain Cattle Com papy, Samuel Coff-
mann, J. r. Dilworth, and David J. Ken
nelly.
Acting Secretary Of the Interior MUD
row, in ompliance with the request of
the Acting Land Commissioner has
directed that the issue of patents TO the
State of Minnesota for certain lands des-
cribed In approval swamp land lists Nos.
10 and 20, Duluth series, be suspended
for the reason, as given by the Acting
Commissioner, that through inadvertence
on the part of the office, the attention of
the department was not called to the i'm
portance of suspending issue OF such
patents, and that numerous af1davits
alleging fraud in the return of lands as
swamp and overlooked have been filed by
settlers seeking lands. The Acting Secre-
tary directs that a special agent be as
signed at once to the work Of investiga5-
ing those cases and that report be made
at the earliest date.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15

IT is shown by statistical information
that during little more than year past
the net imports of gold into the United
States have amounted to $40,O00,000,
which, added to the gold product of the
country for the same period, makes the
total addition to the gold holdings of the
country $7O,OO0,OCO. Where now are the
arguments of the gold bugs who insisted
age of silver must drive the gold out of
Union and greatly contract the cur
rency?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15
FARM NOTES.

Some recent decisions made by Score
tary Lamar regarding the requirements
of the presumption law will be of Interest
to those occupying public lands. John j
Skohen, after pre-empting land in the
Aberdeen land district in Dakota, still re-
tanned an interest in store where he
worked daily. 1t was decided that in SO
doing, 1T did not effect his good faith in
making entry provided that circums.ap-
ces showed that he complied with the law
as to inhabitancy and improvement.
Some poultry keepers have great faith
in coal oil as preventative against chol-
era, and once or twice week they give
their fowls meal of corn that has been
soaked in coal oil, Or else mix a dose of
the oil in the soft feed. Don't do it.
Coal oil will not prevent Or cure cholera,
and it will make the eggs and flesh of
fowls so feed taste worse than the onion
fiavorsd eggs and ckichens.
There has been an everlasting lot of
rubbish written about the table qualities
Of the different breeds of fowls. Most
breeders claim that the breeds which they
have for sale are superior table fowls,
meat rich, fne-grained, tender, and Juicy"
and all that, and that chickens of other
breeds are tough, dry, coarse-grained,
stringy and tasteless." Now the plain
truth of the matter is, there is but little
difference in the flesh of the different
breeds, provided the chickens are of the
same age, have been raised alike and cook
ed alike.
Statistician Dodge, of the government
department of agriculture, having been
criticised somewhat concerning his recent
estimate OF the tobacco crop defends his
position thus: We know that in some
states the tobacco leaf average this year
is smaller than last year. But we are
confident the reduction is not so large as
the critics claim. The estimate referred
to put the tobacco acreage in the several
tobacco states at from to 80 per cent
less than last year. We think that is
about the figure. Our estimates were
based upon the first set of reports receiv-
ed upon the tobacco planting, and in a
few weeks we shall have another set of
reports and issue an estimate which we
hope will be as exact as it is possible to
make it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15

cumstances. A third great waste is keep
ing animals past their prime. When
COW is past years she is at her best. If
well cared for she will become more and
mere valuable up to this point, after
which she declines; becomes yearly worth
less for final disposition. Acting on
these suggestions may lead to temper
airy depression in the meat and hide
market and an advance in the value of
good stock if the poor animals are to be
all suddenly put where they will do the
most good. But what cannot be cured
should be put an end to at once, and a
good herd of cows ali paying profit will
bring more money to the owner than an
average herd of 20, half of which live at a
loss.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15
Year of Great Hapnenings.

This will be one of the notable years ia
the business history of the country.
Something has been added TO the grand
total of national wealth, but the record
is one of unusual commercial commotion.
Many thousands of miles have been ad-
ded to the iron railway systems, aid mil
lions and millions of dollars have gone
into new and experimental fields of en-
terprise. The money centers have been
drained steadily, producing financial
stringency and causing collapse of in
Vulnerable bubbles. The withdrawal of
capital from railroad and other kindred
securities has caused general tumble IN
the speculative share and bond market,
and this loss of property is once more
getting down where 1t belongs. The
wind and water is being pretty well
squeezed out of ballooned stocks and
values are determined by the dividend
paying capacity of the property repre-
scented by the chromos dealt in on the
exchanges. The shrinkage has been
the expense of enormous paper losse
which, unhappily, have not fallen
entirely upon the speculative
classes. There has been vast
increase in the value of mining property
iron taking the lead, but this enhance
ment is as yet largely underground, and
not in shape to realize on. New agricul-
tural area to the extent of millions of
acres has been opened up, yet it is a
question if the agricultural classes of the
north, as vhoIe, will be able to carry
forward balance to the profit side of
the ledger. The south has been blessed
with extraordinary food and cotton crops
and the harvests of the east have turned
out we'll, but the great west will suffer a
loss of probably $200,OO0,OO0 from di
minished corn, hay, and potato crops.
But for the fact that it is great west
this enormous loss would mean over
whelming ruin, but year Or two of
general prosperity will heal the sore and
leave only an unpleasant memory as a
reminder. What in most countries of the
earth would mean an overpowering nat
tional calamity is in America local af
fair. Surely we are living in wonder
full and in mighty age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
THE SECRET DRAWER.
TSnnLe Bar


In idle mood touched the springs
That opened wide the secret drawer
To gaze on half-foreotton things
That walked the memories of yore;
Small scraps of letters loosely tied
With silken bands of faded blue
Containing words OF love and pride,
Wrung from my heart when life was new.
A lock of radisnt golden hair
That once adorned glorious head.
Of young angel heavenly fair
And long since numbered with the dead =
a dark brown treSs-the sole remains
OF brave woman lost and gone,
The partner of my joys and pains,
Whose smile made sunlight where it shone
l sighed, kissed them like a fool
Although perhaps the fool was wise
With wisdom learned in sorrows school
Who saw the truth through all disguise.
And taking counsel with my thought
asked myself, mid haze OF tears
Why these fond relics, fancy-fraught,
Should live beyond my span of years?
Live with their tale OF thought or deed,
For merchandise in scandals mart,
To satisfy the clamorouS greed
Or ScribblerS who'd 6iSsect my heart
When lay slumbering in the mold,
Unweeting of Fames noisy blast
And sell for miserable gold
The sacred secrets of the past?
To build romances from my life.
Or weave the lies that seem like truth
From shadows of long ended strife
And unknown agonies OF youth?
Take them, ye flamesi such safe is best,
all but the lock of hair [ crave
To wear upon my living breast
And perish with me in the grave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-15

In the Forum for September, Nicholas
practicable solution of the labor problem
lies in the general application of the
principle of profit sharing to modern
industry. Perhaps the principle of pro-
ht-sharing might be applied still more
broadly and solve also the great problem
of taxation, and incidentally some other
land is held by person or corporation
for speculative purposes, and great in
crease in value follows, not from the in
dustry of the owner or from any improve
ments placed thereon, but from the i'm
provements of property all around by
others and large increase of population
if the principle of proft-sharing were en-
forced by good system of taxation, per-
haps the tax levied upon the produce of
mems Drawn and brain would not be SO
heavy. This demand for division of
the profits seems rather just and it
might lead to an earlier sale of unim-
proved land on easter terms to
those who would improve il. A contem-
porary in speaking of Senator Ingalls,
remarks as to the probable necessity of
conquest, for more land, says there Is
land in plenty all over the country that
needs cultivation. That is all true. but
when the poor man attempts to cultivate
il and has to pay heavy tax for the
privilege to private owner in addition
to the tax he pays for the support of the
government, he finds there is poor re-
turn left, for his labor, and so he goes
into new regions where he can get lands
on which he does not have to pay heavy
tax on profits not earned by the holder
of the land, but by the people at large.
1t is this rent-free land which is growing
scarce in these United States and for
which Senator Ingalls, thinks we must
provide by conquest. But that would
only pat off the evil day little longer
and true statesm anship would try to
reach the root of the evil. Perhaps the
principle of proft-sharing will prove to
be the remedy.